Peshawar, Oct 13: Pakistani security forces claimed to have killed 27 Taliban, including 12 bombers, in an air-strike in the Orakzai Agency, here last evening.

The Frontier Corps (FC) described it as a “highly successful action”.

“In a highly successful action in Orakzai Agency, a combat aviation strike killed 27 Taliban,” a statement from the Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters said and added that those killed included two important Taliban commanders.

Credible sources confirmed that 12 persons among those killed were “would-be suicide bombers”, the Daily Times quoted the FC statement as saying.

Peshawar, Oct 12: The security forces and the Taliban have made conflicting claims about casualties during clashes in the troubled Swat Valley, as the chief of the Kanju Amn Jirga claimed that Maulana Fazlullah has announced a unilateral ceasefire.

The chief of the Kanju Amn Jirga, Inamur Rehman, has claimed that he had met Fazlullah at an unknown place and he had announced a unilateral ceasefire for one or two months.

Peshawar- At least 11 people, including four children, were killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded next to a police van in Dir district of North West Frontier Province, police officials said.

The blast took place when the van transporting prisoners to the local jail arrived in the Khwaga Oba area.

Four policemen and three prisoners were killed in the explosion, local police officer Ghulam Mohammad said.

A passing vehicle carrying school girls was also hit in the incident, leaving four of the children dead.

Peshawar, Oct 9 : Recent data released by a Pakistani law-enforcement agency has revealed that over the past six years, as many as 116 suicide bombings have taken place in the country, and that they were still going on “unabated”.

The time period assumes significance as it follows Pakistan’s decision to join the US-led war on terror after the 9/11 air attacks.

Peshawar, Oct 8: Taking a strong exception to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s recent comment describing Kashmiri militants as ‘terrorists’, the PML-Q, a key Opposition party in Pakistan, has said that “a mentally sick person” could not be allowed to make all decisions on his own, especially at a time when the country was facing both internal as well as external threats.

The party said that President Zardari had “damaged” the Kashmir cause by calling Kashmiri freedom fighters as ‘terrorists’ in an interview with a foreign newspaper.

Peshawar, Oct 6 : Twenty people were killed and 53 others were injured in a suicide blast that ripped through the dera of MNA Rasheed Akbar Khan Nawani in Bhakkar District of Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday.

The Interior Ministry has confirmed the deaths of 20 people but put the number of injured at 35, The News reported.

The MNA was among the injured. Some of the wounded are in serious condition, DSP Bhakkar Khadim Hussain said.

He said people were exchanging Eid greetings with the MNA at the time of the blast.